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Troublesome Words : A Cultural History of Russian - Simon Franklin

Troublesome Words

A Cultural History of Russian

By: Simon Franklin

eBook | 1 September 2026

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Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, including sections on the discovery by the educated elite of the language of 'the people', the linguistic experiments of writers and revolutionaries, the rhetoric of empire, and politics, and examines the global diversity of Russian today. Clear, concise and engaging, Troublesome Words is both a history and a cultural portrait, revealing how language reflects power, imagination and the changing world.

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